Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-13
BoARDING-HOuSE LIFE.

| How Many Newly Married Couples Drill
Into Most Uncomfortable Conditions.
| Nothing is more usual in New YORK
than for the man Just married TO take
his young wife to no other home than
| boarding house. He does it with the
most laudable intention in the world,
| and with the fixed determination to go
| to housekeeping Just as soon as his inn
proved prospects will justify him to IN
dulge in an increase of expenditure
At present it is so nice to sit down to
the table without any harrassing fear
of butchers bills. no wrangle with I'M
trained servants, no fear of a mother
in-law's superior wisdom in household
affairs putting your verdant experience
to the blush. 1t is so pleasant to 60 of
Just when you feel like it, on little flying
trips to the country or visit to some
friend, without leaving a single doubt
or care behind. You can calculate just
to a nicely what your expenses amount
to. and. consequently. indulge in many
and unjustifable little extravagances
which had been great deal
better bestowed in more use
full cause. And. so, at the end
of the year, though intensely weary of
it all, you have drifted into this irre-
sponsible, happy-go-lucky kind of ex-
istence. without any more definite
course of action than when you first
started.
Your wife, deprived of all those
charming little duties which constitute
the chief pleasure of married woman's
hfe-those nice little plans for beauti-
flying and embellishing her home. in
which her faculties for the comfort of
her surroundings find full scope, has
either grown inert or hstless, or has
found other interests with which to oe-
cupy herself. At the best, tits vague,
purposeless dragging along of one day
to another, in which routine has no
part. The most important task of her
life is how to kill time most effectually,
or to dispose of the day in the least
tiresome manner. Her proper voca-
ton is missing, she knows no other
duty than that of self indulgence, till
finally, when the time arrives for you
to give her home, she has lost all in
clination- and prefers to live on as she
has begun.
Perhaps. after this. the cause for so
MANY divorces is not far to seek.
There is no country in the world where
people have so little veneration for
their household gods, as in America.
The most luxurious and elegantly APP
pointed homes are broken up-general-
" for the most trivial reason In the
world-with the same facility as one
would fold up tent. without the least
compunction in parting with the thou
sand and one familiar objects, endeared
by long usage and association. Thus
the ruling power receives fresh impetus
from year to year, and there is no fear
of decay of its supremacy so long as
people will not recognize that the chief
welfare of n nation depend upon home
influence and association-to the wife
the home; to the husband the task of
providing for it. IL the former shirks
her part of the marriage contract, it is
surely excusable in the husband to shirk
his responsibilities. The wholesome
influence of numerous obligations,
the necessary sense of weighty response
ties and duties, have no part in his life.
The edge is taken off his ambition, be-
cause the chief incentive thereto is
missing. He is regular nomad. with
a nomad's idea of life. Its obligations
and duties press but lightly on him, and
he can pitch his tent wherever he
pleases. His Iandlady is the only per-
son he fears, because on her depends
his material comfort. That is why he
alternately cajoles and fatters her,
meekIy bows his head under her coarse
despotism, abjectly accedes to her ex-
tortionate demand in raising him."
submits to the most humiliating inIper-s
thence from the servants, and. in short,
lives a perpetual life of sufferance,
while vainly trying to delude himself
into belief that he is free-born man,
and an independent citizen.--M r.
Graphic.